Fastmac today announced the availability of its Blu-ray optical disk upgrade for the Mac mini. The new slimline drive supports reading, writing and re-writing to single (25GB) and dual layer (50GB) Blu-ray media at 1x speeds. It also works with DVD and CD media, able to write to DVD-R and DVD+R discs at 8x in single layer and 2x in dual/double layer mode; it can rewrite to DVD-R and DVD+R media at 4x speeds. Fastmac's drive also supports DVD-RAW reading and writing and up to 5x speeds and CD-R and CD-RW discs at 8x speeds.

It should be noted that Blu-ray burning requires 3rd-party software such as Roxio's Toast 8 Titanium, which enables Blu-ray disk support in the Mac OS Finder, and Blu-ray media. Native support for Blu-ray burning within iLife & iTunes is expected in the future via Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but cannot be guaranteed at this time. Fastmac's Blu-Ray optical drive upgrade is scheduled to ship within 10 days and is priced at $799.95.

This is a great advancement and will be a real help when storing high res pictures from my Canon SLR. A little too expensive but I am sure just like DVD-RW drives, you will be able to pick them up for under £100 sooner or later.._________________
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The storage capacity is what really gets me about the Blu-Ray devices. You could possibly store your whole iTunes library on one disk!

Yeah, Blu-Ray really leaped ahead of anyone trying to make high storage capacity discs...currently on the market is I think 25gb and 50gb discs...plus they have a very good hard-coating to protect the discs. What's really amazing is what they are currently experimenting with, 100gb Quad Layer discs (They worked with modified players that haven't been distributed), and even a 200gb disc.